Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?

Post by mlinsey » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 11:49 PM UTC

paulpauper wrote: post #56

danso wrote: post #37

> “This is NOT a method, you will be given a full refund if for any reason you aren’t given the email/@, however if it is revered/suspended I will not be held accountable,” Chaewon wrote in their sales thread, which was titled “Pulling email for any Twitter/Taking Requests.” If access were being sold via message board, I wonder if the thread contains stipulations on which accounts are off-limits for being hacked. My…

it is possible trump account had a special measure in place to override the email reset to make it hack-proof.

Post by yellow_postit » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 11:52 PM UTC

paxys wrote: post #84

Tempest1981 wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

see this, from earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23860584 "No, you couldn't have made more money than the Twitter hacker" https://fortenf.org/e/security/2020/07/15/twitter-hack.html

I don't buy the stock market argument. People open short positions worth more than $100K every day, especially against companies like Tesla. There would be nothing suspicious about a few such trades. But really, my point is that pulling off a sophisticated exploit involving major celebrities, politicians and CEOs, social engineering/bribery, internal access at a top company etc. doesn't really seem worth the risk if…

Post by stri8ed » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 11:52 PM UTC

chrisseaton wrote: post #18

strikelaserclaw wrote: post #11

man who falls for this stuff. i've been seeing "send me money to this account to get double that" scam for like 20 years, its hard to believe there are people who still don't know better.

I too don't understand who's technical enough to know what BitCoin is but not technical enough to understand the scam. I think some people are possibly just sending the scammers some money for the banter? A sign of respect for the hack.

Post by WrtCdEvrydy » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 11:54 PM UTC

sillysaurusx wrote: post #13

chmod775 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You'd have to be a special kind of stupid to "un-wash" your own bitcoins this way.

Possibly. The only reason this would be stupid is because Bitcoin has rapidly been centralizing. I suspect many exchanges might start blacklisting any wallet that has any transactions from this wallet. On the other hand, they can’t really do that. At that point the attackers would be able to poison any wallet just by sending a small amount of BTC to it. Therefore it seems like the only penalty is that they’d have to…

Post by elliotec » Thu, Jul 16, 2020, 11:55 PM UTC

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #85

christoph wrote: post #54

I don’t really think he should be naming who his unnamed sources “think” is behind an attack on this scale, especially with full name, city of origin, Instagram, suggested current location, age, etc. It feels a very, very small step away from doxxing to me. Added to which he has somebody in the comments essentially calling for the death penalty over this. If he has this personal information and evidence, pass it to t…

> It feels a very, very small step away from doxxing to me. What small step is that? Looks like a textbook case of doxxing to me.